METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE LOAD OF A WIRELESS CHANNEL IN A NETWORK AND NETWORK WITH WIRELESS CHANNEL LOAD CONTROL FUNCTIONALITY

摘要

A method for controlling the load of a wireless channel in a network, in particular in a WLAN-based vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), said network including a multitude of mobile nodes, wherein said mobile nodes send out periodic messages - ordinary messages - for exchanging information among each other and/or for communication with infrastructure elements of said network, and wherein said mobile nodes send out specific messages - extraordinary messages -, which have a higher priority than said ordinary messages and which are, in particular, related to an event, is characterized in that said mobile nodes, upon identification of a received message as an extraordinary message, start to take action that is intended to reduce their resource usage. Furthermore, a network with wireless channel load control functionality is described.